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evidently refers to a tree with horizontal branches, and having our- 

 selves examined a great number of specimens, we incline to the opinion 

 that the fastigiate, or upright growing Cypress from California, is a 

 well-defined variety of the above, and to which the name " Lam- 

 bertiana" would not be inapplicable. In stating this, however, we 

 are quite aware of a pecuharity existing in many species of European 

 Cypresses and Junipers, among which are found seedling plants differ- 

 ing as widely in this respect as the Californian Cypress ; so that our 

 assertion requires further evidence to support it, on which point we beg 

 our readers to give us their opinions, with the view of clearing up the 

 matter. 



The large-fruited Cypress is thickly furnished with branches, irregu- 

 larly opposite or alternate, with numerous branchlets densely clothed 

 with foUage of an intense green (the foliage of the upright growing 

 kind is a bright grass green), leaves ovate, fourfold, imbricated but 

 expanded, awl-shaped, and sharp pointed in young plants. Mr. 

 Pontey notices that the foHage of macrocarpa is of a very dark grass 

 green when compared with the upright one, which we have alwa3^s 

 seen to be the case. For ourselves we consider the latter the hand- 

 somest in its young state, though it remains to be proved whether it 

 will form a tree equally grand with those described by Hartweg as 

 growing in California. The dense habit and intense green of their 

 foliage constitute them especially ornamental ; nor must we forget to 

 notice their rapid growth, which exceeds that of any other kind of 

 Cypress. As an additional proof to what the specimen figured affords 

 us, we have several plants of the upright growing variety, fifteen and 

 sixteen feet high and proportionally bushy, which were only planted 

 in the spring of 1850. And we agree with Mr. Pontey, who states 

 he has observed that both kinds of this Cypress, as well as several other 

 Californian trees and shrubs, sensibly increase during the winter. As 

 an additional recommendation, both forms of Cupressus macrocarpa 

 are completely hardy. In the most exposed situations during the 

 severe weather of the winter 1853-4, not the least change could be 

 observ'ed in their foliage, which retained its beautiful gi-een throughout 

 that trying season. Nor do we consider it particular as to soil, except- 

 ing wet and cold clays ; we must therefore consider the Cahfornian 

 Cypress to be one of the most ornamental trees we possess, and its 

 adaptation to eveiy style of garden and park embellishment sufficiently 

 establistied. It has been extensively propagated by cuttings, which 

 appear to grow as freely as the seedling plants first introduced. This 

 has brought downi its price, and it may now be had sufficiently cheap 

 to enable its being introduced into every description of scenery. We 

 remember a few years back noticing a very fine specimen of the hori- 

 zontal-branched kind, in the nursery of Messrs. Waterer and Godfirey, 

 at Knap Hill, which must now be a fine tree. 



Erratum.— At conclusion of our article on Thuiopsis, in last Number, Biota 

 has been inadvertently made to include American Arbor-vitses, which should 

 not have been the case. Our readers will therefore please to accept this correc- 

 tion of the mistake. 



